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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Backup system to NFS Appliance device Post 39867 by Perderabo on Tuesday 2nd of September 2003 05:09:49 PM
Old 09-02-2003
I would certainly expect that to fail!

> $TAPEDRIVE
send stdout to $TAPEDRIVE

>> $MAILMSG
send stdout to $MAILMSG in append mode

If you really want to mail yourself a copy of the cpio output you will need to use tee or something. Since you were complaining that the output was more than 2 GB, expect a lengthy mail message.
 

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BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)						    Box Backup							BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)

NAME
bbackupd-config - Box Backup client daemon configuration file generator SYNOPSIS
bbackupd-config config-dir backup-mode account-num server-hostname working-dir backup-dir [backup-dir ...] DESCRIPTION
The bbackupd-config script creates configuration files and client certificates. It takes at least six parameters: config-dir Configuration directory. Usually /etc/box. backup-mode Either lazy or snapshot. account-num The client account number. This is set by the bbstored administrator. server-hostname The hostname or IP address of the bbstored server. working-dir A directory to keep temporary state files. This is usually something like /var/bbackupd. This can be changed in bbackupd.conf later on if required. backup-dir A space-separated list of directories to be backed up. Note that this does not traverse mount points. FILES
/etc/box/bbackupd.conf /etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysAdmin.sh SEE ALSO
bbackupd.conf(5), bbackupd(8), bbackupctl(8) AUTHORS
Ben Summers Per Thomsen James O'Gorman Box Backup 0.11 10/28/2011 BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)
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